Collection device



May 1957 w. F. KRUSCHWITZ 2,791,976

COLLECT ION DEVICE Filed March 23, 1953 2,791,976 COLLECTION DEVICE William E. Kruschwitz, Methuen, Mass. Application March 23, 1953, Serial No. 344,010 4 Claims. (Cl. 109-52) This invention relates to a collection device or door collection device and is somewhat similar to Kruschwitz et al., Door Collection Receptacle of February 17, 1942, No. 2,273,580, but it is intended for a somewhat broader and more extensive use than merely as a depository for money to be taken by a driver for a laundry, drycleaner, or milk route, etc, whereby the customer could leave a definite amount of money in a locked box which the driver could unlock with a particular key.

This collection device includes one or more attaching or holding plates, one to be permanently attached to the frame of a house, preferably the door frame and near an outside door and the other holding plate to be attached to a wall, shelf etc. in the kitchen or somewhere in the house convenient for the householder.

The collection device also includes a receptacle comprising an outer tubular supporting member which is attachable or detachable to a base plate by rotation relative thereto and which completely covers the means for securing the base plate to a wall. It also includes an inner tubular locking member which telescopes inside such outer supporting member and is provided with means whereby when the outer member is put in place on a base plate and the inner member is put inside it, the outer and the inner members are locked against rotation on the base plate. The inner member is prevented from withdrawal from the outer member by means of a lock provided with two keys, one of which is kept by the householder and the other one of which is kept by the driver.

Where there are more than one collecting and delivering business concerns, such as the milkman, the laundryman, dry cleaner, etc. a separate and diiferent collection receptacle with different keys is necessary for each concern, but only one base plate permanently attached by screws or otherwise, to the door frame or other convenient plate is necessary. However, an extra base plate is preferably provided with each device to be attached permanently in a convenient place inside the home such as a kitchen cabinet, so that such receptacle when not in use, can be put and out of the way on its own base plate.

This means that there needs to be only one plate outside the house on the door frame and there may be several receptacles, each with a separate key for use with a particular laundry, milkman, etc., or of course, there may be several such plates on the outside frame, one for each concern.

Each one of these collection devices is intended to be utilized by the householder by putting the key to the outside door and a certain amount of money in the receptacle and, if necessary, leaving the laundry inside the house near the door. The driver, therefore, can unlock the receptacle, remove the inner locking member take out the house key, open the door, take the laundry then re-lock the house door, replace the house key and lock the whole collection device in place. Of course the householder can leave only the house key and no money, or can leave the laundry outside the house and not even place the receptacle on the plate.

For the return trip, the householder can leave the key to the house and the money in the receptacle and lock it. The laundry driver can unlock the receptacle, then leave the laundry inside the house door instead of outside and then relock the house door, replace the house key in the container With whatever change is necessary, with or without a receipt, together with the house key all outside the house in the container.

The householder can then unlock and remove the receptacle, leaving the base plate in position until the next trip of the laundryman. The householder opens the receptacle, takes out the change, and receipt if any, and the house key to be put back inside the door.

He can put the receptacle back and lock it outside, but preferably he stores it on a second holding plate fixed inside the house, locks it and leaves his key in the lock, all parts of the receptacle being together in one place.

If he has another receptacle with its keys for the milkman, he can put it on the same outside holding plate, or of course he can have more than one fixed outside plate for use by each service.

Preferably he should have one or more plates fixed inside the house to be conveniently marked or labeled and lock on the outside plate only one receptacle as a signal for the particular service'to call.

In the drawings:

Fig. l is an elevation of my device in place on the frame of a building or door.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevational view on a vertical plane of the device shown in Fig. l.

Fig. 2A is a sectionalfdetail'view of a locking prong passing through a locking prong hole and into a locking prong slot.

Fig. 3 is an elevational edge view of a holding'plate alone attached to such a frame.

Fig. 4 is an elevational face view from the right of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line 5--5 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is an elevational view of the tubular inside member alone.

Fig. 7 is a view as from the left of Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is an elevational view of an inside member somewhat diiferent from the one shown in Fig. 6.

In the drawings, F represents a door frame to which a base or holding plate P is attached by screws S, S, each having a head 10 and a shankll, each of which passes through an attaching screw hole 13 in plate P.

Plate P preferably has a projecting center guide 40 in the form of a pin, and around its rim has a plurality of annularly disposed locking prong slots 42, and annularly disposed attaching lugs 41, each with a head 43 and shank 44. V

E represents a tubular outer supporting member with a cylindrical wall 57 and an inside base 58, the base 58 having a center guide hole 50 to slip over guide pin 40 and at least one annularly disposed, key hole shaped attaching lug slots 51 each positioned to engage a lug 41. The head 43 of each'lug 41 can pass through thelenlarged aperture 53 of a lug slot 51 but cannot pass through the reduced aperture 54 of the slots 51.

To attach outer member E to plate P, member E can be pushed on to plate P guided by hole 50 and pin 40 and then turned to allow lug heads 43 to pass through the enlarged apertures 53 of lug slots 51 and then again turned so that shanks 44 will pass into reduced apertures .54, thus holding member E detachably to plate P.

Member E is also provided around the rim of its base, 58 with annularly disposed locking prong holes 52 and it should be noted that when in place on plate P, member E- elfectively covers the screws S to prevent removal of the plate.

Outer member E has an open end at outside rim 55 proximate which is a radially outwardly projecting hollow locking rib 56.

Member E is a cap member and member G, to be described, is a cup member.

G represents a tubular locking bolt end 60 can be turned by a key of member E, Fig. 6.

The outer and inner tubular members E and G are thus locked to plate P as prongs 62 passing through ber E, and the heads 43 of lugs 41 prevent member E from being pulled away from plate P.

Lock L is shown as off center of end 60 of member G so that bolt 66 can be moved to enter rib 56 or to withdraw it by the use of a key K.

As shown in Fig. 6, lock bolt 66 of inner member G passes through lock bolt hole 64 in the cylindrical wall 67 of member G.

can be omitted in the distance between along its curved bolt hole 74, is just enough to regis- 76 of a lock 71 which is similar to surface 77 to its lock ter with a lock bolt lock L.

I claim:

2. A collection device for use outside ing a frame;

ing a plurality form radius within the periphery affixing the same substantially flatwise against a surface;

having axially extending prong holes in said cap plate member for locking said cap member against rotation on said plate member when the closed position covering said opening.

4. A tamper resistant collection receptacle for house- References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 228,091 Lowell May 25, 1880 384,855 Kidney June 19, 1888 534,012 Saunders Feb. 12, 1895 1,649,372 Tait Nov. 15, 1927 1,796,502 Boucher Mar. 17, 1931 2,010,877 Morell Aug. 13, 1935 2,180,117 Lipsis Nov. 14, 1939 ,273,580 Kruschwitz Feb. 17, 1942 FOREIGN PATENTS 147,121 I Austria Oct. 10, 1936 

